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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

Mr. SIN Coy's experience is, as stated to
the Democratic central committee, ''that the
fewer men You have in this politics the better
it will be done" This remark, in connection
with other circumstances, gives rise to the sus-
picion that Mr.. Coy would like to play lone
hand in his little political game.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

Ii case arising under the Boston Sunday
aw jury has found against barber for
plyiug his vocation, on the ground that shaw
ing on Sunday is not work of necessity or
charity. The case is to be taken to the Su-
nia;ne Court
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

Up to the hour of going to press "the ste
nographer Of the Senate" had made no visible
and outward sign whether he alone pro6ted
by that little stationery steal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

THERE is nothing political in Mr.. Blaine's
Western trip Mr. Blaine says so, and he
ought to know. Mr.. John Sherman said the
same III regard to his Southern tour the other
day. but somehow politics managed to slip in.
Perhaps Brother Blaine will have better luck
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

A BosToN paper expresses the opinion that
Joseph Cooks lecture Henry Ward Beecher
has made this the last of his series Of Monday
lectures. 1t will also cause the public to apply
to Mr.. Cook that gentleman's estimate Of Mr.
Beecher. namely: That he would have been q
greater man had he died younger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

yesterday. So far as known, he did not
return the So to the treasury which he owes
tie State, nor did he try to get the balance of
che 1922 out of which he attempted to gouge
lhn nnhlic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

IT seems that after seeing Mrs. James Brown
Potter at a dress rehearsal, the Prince of
Wales eraked his reputation as a critic upon
her success. His reputation as a critic, you
understand. So remarkable a thing as his gen.
eral reputation would, perhaps not have been
accepted as q stake by cautious sports.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

CHICAGO Democrats evidently do not de-
spair of getting Carter Harrison for their can
didate yet. The more that giddy old coquette
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

THAT was a rum" crowd at the meeting
Of the Democratic city central committee the
other night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

AND still we have no information what
Greer Smith did with those sixty-three PEN
xnives How many went to the penitentiary
consicts and jail-birds by whom he was sur
rounded?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

BUFFALO. March 80 -Patrick Walsh of New
York. adopted the Hebrew faith yesterday, WAS
circumcised last night, and was married this
morning to Lena Levi, young Je~ess. also Of
Nav York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

JAY GOULD says he has read the interstate
commerce law about dozen times, and ia not
yet able to grasp its meaning If it were
bonded railroad he would grasp it mighty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31

AN enterprising Philadelphia cigar dealer dis
plays flaming sign, bearing the legend: "a
Three Cent Cigar That Will Astonish YOU We
get tho same kind ont West for cent apiece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-31
THE INDIANApoLIs JOURNAL

Can BE- found at the following places:
LONDON American Exchange in Europe. 449
Strand
gARIs-American Exchange in Paris, 80 Boulevard
des 6apueines.
yEw YORK-Gedney House and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO Palmer House.
CiNCINNATI-J. P Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street.
LOuiST ILLE-C. T. bearing, northwest corner
Third and Jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON. D. c. Riggs House and Ebbtt
House.
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Telephone Calls.
Business Office .23S Editorial Rooms .c42
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
NEARING HOME.


"He is rapidly failing'-so smooth came the
stroke
On the telegraph line; through the silence it
broke
On heart well Injured to such brushes ere
And yet it was strange! That father, whose
Was held clear toward Heaven and level to
men
Through the storms that blew out of the three
8 score and ten,
Whose strength seemed perennial, like that Of
the pine,
'He is falling strange words down the tel
egraph line.
Groans the train through the night through
city and land
The race is with death for the grasp OF that
hand!
S'Nearing home. nearing home" sing the
wheels as they fly;
Nearing home in the light of the fading sky;
Iswift to the home that has drawn me these
years,
And he unto his in the sphere beyond spheres;
To the father on earth through the gloom gates
of even,
To the Father above, through the pearl gates Of
Heaven.
All. which shall be first in the race for the
home?
shall come?
1t Is done, thou art first. Take the crown, oh
thou best
OF all fathers. I meekly salute thee at rest.
-Chds. L. Thompson, IN Interior
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02

of Civil-Service reform in 1874 With
in three weeks after his inauguration
he turned his back upon his own pro-
LESSONS in favor Of reform by an os-
tentatious action based solely and al
most ayowedly upon the spoils system.
A collector in the New York custom
house was removed midway in his
term, not for the good OF the service,
since it was acknowledged that he had
been an efficient and faithful official,
but for the purpose Of making room
for politician whose personal demand
upon the Presidents chief adviser must
be paid off at the public expense. This
backward step was not retraced. and
on the morning of July 2, 1881. the
outlook for reform was most discour-
aging.
Perhaps nothing short of Guiteau's
shot could have impressed the people
with ''the dangers of a mad chase
after partisan spoils." Certainly the
assassination of Garfield marked the
turning-point in the struggle with the
spoils system. In the next election OF
Congressman, in the fall of 1882. the
popular demand for change was made
so plain that the expiring Con-
gress, promptly upon meeting
in December, 1882, took up and
passed the Pendleton bill, which
its author had for two years yainly
pushed upon the attention of his col
leagues. In July. 1883, the COMPETE
tive system was put INTO operation. In
1884 the growing demand for thor
ough-going reform of the civil service
aided in the election of 4 Democrat
over Republican candidate who had
shown his attitude towards the ques-
ton when he committed it to the ten
der mercies of General Butler ten
years before. The Civil-Service system
became month by month more firmly
entrenched, and in May, 1887, an exc
tension only second in Importance to
its original establishment is made
through the approval by the President
of rules which apply the competitive
principle to promotions as well as to
entrance. Most important of all, this
latest and most significant action of
the Presinent is criticised only by a
few Republican spoils organs, while
the progressive Democratic newspa-
pers throughout the country accept it
as one of the arguments which the par
ty can present for asking another lease
of power in 1888.
1t is not yet six years since Garfield's
assassination, but it is already evident
that the lesson of that event has been
mastered by the American people. The
spoils system reached its full fruition
in his murder by disappointed office
seeker, and the people have taken ga
solemn resolve to purge forever from
our political methods and from the
operations of our Government the per-
versions and misconceptions which
| gave birth to passionate and blood J
thoughts.-M r Post.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
NEWSPAPER OPINION.

-Chas. j. Faulkner, the new Sem
ator from West Virginia, is an accom-
plished scholar and one of the youngest
men ever elected to the United States
Senate.-St. Louis Republican.
ALI Governor Foraker's speeches
nowadays are mailed to prominent Re-
publicans throughout the Union. ac-
companied by a portrait of the distin-
guished son of Ohio. Catch onp-M
Y World.
The discovery by Commissioner
Of Agriculture Colman that dogs are
sometimes run through the ole omar
garine churns has shocked many of the
bogus butter-makers not little, as
they were not aware that any thing SO
expensive was being used.-Ch Chicago
Herald
A New York paper says: 'Mr.
Theodore Roosevelt, with his eye on
the Presidency, reminds one of opera
bouffe." Little Roosevelt's eye on the
Presidency! Does he mean to wait un-
til he gets big enough, or does he think
that Presidencies come in children's
sizesp-St Louis Post Dispatch.
No Republican who opposed
Mr.. Blaine in 1884 will support him in
1883. and to these may be added q
large number of his former supporters
who deem his candidacy unwise. The
Republicans may succeed with entire
harmony in their ranks, but the con-
tests already in sight in some OF the
close States do not indicate spirit
that promises success. Chicago Nes0s.
Whenever Republican post
master is removed, or the services of q
Republican postal or post-office clerk
is dispensed with, Republican news
papers publish something like this:
:. Complaints about the mail service
are multiplying fast They como
from all directions. And yet the
actual facts are that the postal-service
is being improved every day, and the
people know it.-Des Moines Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
HONEST AND PATRIOTIC.

{ =. -
The Old-Fashioned Democrat = Man Of
whom the Country Can BE Proud.
When q man is appointed to office,
or receives any special honors at the
hands of the President or people, it is
the custom of the time to speak OF his
political standing. his record as to
party and principles, and frequently
the phrase "an old-fashioned Demo-
craft is applied to him by men not OF
his own party. There is something
wholesome in this; compliment to
the mans staying and sterling quali-
ties. Hon. Edward F. Brigham, the
recently-appointed Chief Justice OF the
District of Columbia, is thus men
toned; ex-senator Thurman also, and
others, whom the people know and re-
spect.
s.An old-fashioned Democrat" is sure
to be an upright citizen. He believes
in something and sticks to it; he stud
les men, analyses measures, weighs
opinions and puts every question to
the test. If he is in business he meets
his obligations like man, deals on
the square, says mo- when he means
no." and is just as ready to help an
opponent in distress as one of his own
party associates. With him right is
right, and fair play is fair play; to do a
mean or dishonorable action is foreign
to his nature; as rule, he loves well
and hates well, and the man who be-
trays his party, or is guilty of decep-
ton or fraud, is in his eyes criminal.
The old-fashioned Democrat is more
progressive than the conservative Re-
publican; he may oppose cutting down
a tree, because it symbolizes his own
life in some respects, but let him be-
come convinced that the tree endan-
gers human life, or stands in the way
of a needed improvement for the gen.
eral good, and he will, if it need be,
| fell it with his own hands. He is OPP
posed to quarreling on principle. but
| fights when Justice demands it, with a
persistency unknown to his meeker
brethren.
| If you are fortunate enough to know
him Intimately you will find him in so
| cial life the soul of honor, the truest OF
friends and the most devoted husband
and father, His absolute truthfulness
and downright earnestness in some.
times mistaken for obstinacy, but how
ever brusque he may be, he is a man
to trust in an emergency, friend to
rely upon in trouble, citizen to be re-
vered and a patriot at heart, whether
he stands in the legislative halls of the
nation, wears the judicial ermine, OF
mends shoes in some quiet alley.
| Wherever you find him you will fine
man of solid worth, whose opinion
on any subject is valuable, and whose
daily life is constant reproach to the
rascals who live by fraud. Take him
for all in all, the old-fashioned Demo
crat is man to be proud of, and oul
old city of Boston is most fortunate II
having many such within her borders
! - Rnefosa Gl0hp
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
THE SWEETHEART.

We were never engaged in words
words were not needed. Our friendship
was as true and sincere as life could
make the first love of two Young hearts.
Love is not all included IN marriages.
nor in courtships. / believe that many
tender hearts go unmarried from some
secret devotion to absent, unknown ones,
who have carried their affection to
station beyond the skies and stars, and
there, if they look down sometimes, must
know of the true hearts they have won
and are holding with cords all invisible.
1t may be visionary, but I'll carry it
during the rest of my run as sure re-
membrance of one who made me an en-
gineer, for the purpose of exciting advent
ure, to shut out brooding recollection.
I might as we'll attempt to run my engine
to the moon on a watch spring, as to hide
the fact that believe in a hereafter-in
meeting of the good-and that shall see
the little girl as she stood in the cottage
door or lay on the hammock slowly
watching for the coming of one who took
her to better country.
81 will not name her and you are the
first that have ever told the story to,
short as it is, but am willing you should
know that such person lived, that she
trusted me and made few hearts happy
by her living.
.sShe was the idol of the c>llege. Her
singing was really beautiful Sometimes
when we pass a church or theater
and hear music in the night--the some
times don't come very often---I fancy l
have heard the sound before, bat it must
be dream of past recollections.
might have known that she was only a
flower to bloom and pass away, buts the
memory of it lives and will live to the end
of life.
1.-THE end of her life was the most beau
tiful ever saw. She wanted to live
longer. She prayed to live until she
could graduate. I remember once, after
she was warned that she must leave US,
CHANGED to pass the door at twilight and
saw her at the piano. heard
| her murmur sweet music; then
| leaning her head forward she
| prayed, prayed for her father, her m 9th err
her Sunday-school class, herself, that she
might live, and look longer on nature
That prayer made me love the world bet
ter than ever before. To hear her SPEAK
| of spring, and woods, and fields, and How
ers, and friendship, and loving heart tt
lean on, was the most beautiful picture Of
ife's happiness, and the most terrible
| cross to endure it's ending I have ever con
ltemplated.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
REMARKABLE MEN.

Seven individuals Renowned on Account OF
Their Age, Weight or Learning.
In the lower part of Coffee County.
Ga, lives Mr.. Stafford Davis, relative
of the ex-President of the Southern
Confederacy, who is now 1O6 years old.
He served through the war of 1872 and
the Mexican war, but never received a
pension for his services and has never
asked for one. When twenty-nine years
of age he married Miss Lot, and now
has children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren to the number of 275.
In 1872 his wife died after sixty years
of married life, and recently he led to
the altar blushing bride of fifty sum-
hearty until this year, but is now quite
feeble.
Washington County, Pa, has vet
eran of three wars in Isham White.
who says that he was born in Southern
Georgia in 1776. He was one of those
who fought behind the cotton bales UNI
der General jackson at New Orleans,
and thinks it was bullet from his
musket that killed General Packen-
ham. the commander of the British
forces on that occasion. He served
against the Indians in Florida in 1888.
and was a volunteer under General
Winfield Scott in Mexico. His love for
'.Old Hickory" amounts almost to rev.
erence, and he says that he votes for
him at every Presidential election.
One of the largest men of modern
times was Samuel Murfit, who died in
England few weeks ago. He was six
feet one inch high, and weighed $50
pounds. The girth of his waist
was nearly ten feet, and it
took a tape-line twenty inches long to
encompass the calf of his leg. No
hearse could be found large enough to
carry his body, and it took twenty men
to lift the coffin through the window to
sn open wagon. He was native OF
Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, and was
| fifty-five years old.
John Upton, asexagenarian resident
| of Illinois, has just begun the study OF
| Greek. His life has been one of inces-
SAINT toll on a farm, with scant oppor-
tunities for study, but every year he
put aside small sum out of his earn
| ines, and thinks he has now enough to
keep him in comfort for the rest OF his
days. He never went to school in his
boyhood, and did not learn to read and
write until well on in life.
Uncle Elijah Believer. OF Dawson
Ga, failed to attend a recent meeting
of the Masonic lodge and the members
| were SO surprised at his absence thai
| a committee was sent out to see If he
was ill. This was the second time II
forty-eight years that Mr.. Believer had
missed meeting.
The biggest man in Congress is Rep
resentative George T. Barnes. OF Au
gusta, GA He tips the beam at trif1'
over three hundred pounds. and is ont
of the most popular men of the State
His constituency is proud OF him. an'
he will probably remain in Congress a
long as he wants to.
| Perhaps the smallest man of his ag
now living is James Hoag, of Ceda
| Springs, Mich. He was born in 1915
and was one of the smallest babie
known, weighing only nine ounces
He now weighs but seventy-six pounds
and is only forty-fve inches in height
Chicago Neaos.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02

leisurely 1--WE were in our hotel now, and
resting before bed time) l knew that
the currents of thought and emotion flow
freest at nightfall, and so led onward in
the direction of experimentation
telling little of my own
early troubles to draw on a chord re-
sponsive in reply. This is one of the sur
est ways of gaining confidence; it worked
in this case. The real friendship of men
Is more open than that given betw cen
women. Men never tell of each other
women only tell occasionally.
pressed my inquiry a little after this
fashion: 81 have seldom been more
pleased with an venings visit and Its in
| cidents, and only wish had some good
ctprv in rotrarp
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
GEMS OF NONSENSE.

Specimen Passages from tho Republican
Ex-speaker's Garfield Grafton.
We are indebted to Mr.. Keifer, of
Ohio, for copy Of his Grafton on GEN.
eral Garfield. We can not print it in
full. A few specimen passages will
give an idea Of Mr.. Keifer's oratory:
ITO be esteemed worthy citizen in the
time and OF tho country In which he lived
man must be possessed Of more fulness Of life,
more generosity Of soul and more lov0 for his
fellow men than was accounted necessary to
good citizenship in past generations"
Citizenship in o ur country includes sover.
eighty and power, or capacity to command or
direct the affairs Of state
"a citizen Of our country must be filed with
the philanthropy incident to the perfected civil
lzation grown up over the grave OF the barbar-
ism Of the dead past"
"The people Of this purified q MON, being
imbued with q spirit Of personal integrity, do
mand Of the statesman freedom from c0rrup-
ton, and an exalted policy In keeping with
their own lofty character"
Garfield lived in an age and country where
pure patriotism stamped the citizen with the
majesty OF greatness more than in any other
age or government"
"Art and letters may satisfy restless genius.
but physical heroism is necessary TO inspire
patriotism
He at least believed in substituting for the
blind the sight OF knowledge, and for the
maniac the sanctuary of comfortable rcposes
reigned over by tender, God-like care"
After looking through Mr.. Keifer's
address, which is full of just such pas
sages as these, we can readily under
stand why SO determined an effort was
made to deter him from appearing at
the unvailing of the Garfield statue
and speaking his piece. It IS plain
that somebody who respected General
Garfeld's memory had read the ora
ton beforehand. But we can not I'M
derstand why the courts were not ap-
pealed to to prevent the outrage.-A
l v Som
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02

The champion hymeneal story of
the season comes from Haley, Tenn.
A man by the name of Smith married
a girl there few months ago, then
tired of her and procured divorce,
and finally married the girls widowed
mother
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02
A STORY OF LUCK.
Incidents in the Life Of a Railway
Engineer.
fOriginaL1

We run an engine ever
since I was eighteen, and
had my heart come upi my
throat many a time, but
never yet broke a pilot bar
or splintered a cab on any
train 1 ever handled, But
it's all in luck. The very
next year 1 may break up a
couple of trans, lose a dozen
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-11-17
Notice to Creditors.

DNlIlS Is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the
l. subscriber has obtained from the Or
plans Court of Frederick county, letters
testamentory on the estate of
JULIA BIGGS
late of said county, deceased. All
persons having claims against the said de-
ceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with the vouchers thereof legally au-
thtnticatcd, to the subscriber, on or be-
fore the First day of April next, they
may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit Of sad estate.
All persons indebted to said estate are
requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 10Th, day of
september, 1887.
JOSEPH \. GERNAND.
n0vl0.jt Acting ms Executor.
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EStray Notice.

STATE OF MARYLAND, Frederick county,
to-wit:
hereby certify that Adam Hahn of Fred
erick County, came before me, the sut'scrib-
cr, Justice Of the Peace Of said county, and
made oath in due form of law on this oath
day of August, 1887, that on the Eth day Of
August last there came upon his enclosures
as a stray, black and white spotted SOW.
Given under my hand.
FRED'K WHITE, J. p.
The owner Of the above SOW is requested
to prove property, pay charges and take her
away. ADAM HAHN.
sept14t Living one mile East of Grrceham.